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B B

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  1. I’m surprised no one has come up with a adjustable tensioner thingamajig ..... if any manufacturers are interested in my idea il just take the 25% thanks.
  2. I was fishing the taff close to Cardiff castle for the Mullet small float 5 lb line, bread on the hook had a couple Mullet when the rod almost gets ripped out of my hands played what was obviously a record Mullet for 15 mins running up and down the bank... turned out to be a Babel of 4lb hook clean in its mouth.
  3. Corrr that’s a big girl 👍
  4. I find I weigh the smaller species of fish Bream, Tench and Roach to the oz but large carp round it off. I weighed a large Mirror I caught in France on 3 different scales to try an get it to 50lb but it wasn’t happening lol so I rounded that off to 49 lb.
  5. Yonny please no more....just can’t take seeing another pic of a great fish 😉
  6. I check on my elastic now and then chairs and bed if it’s saggy cut the knot pull it tight then tie the knot....I had to replace all of the elastic once (the mice took a fancy to it) B&Q used to sell it by the meter could still do.
  7. As above ...if not Fox sell spares any of your mates got a fox chair see if there’s fit then order one off fox.
  8. Well written cracking fish and good pics 👍
  9. There not deer or squirrels just the waters got a bait boat ban they’ve got disguises on the boats 🙄
  10. And a thumbs up to the camera man 👍
  11. Yonny you write as you fish really outstanding 👍
  12. They are well loved the only items of tackle that stays indoors.
  13. When we were kids we had a sort of competition going with the nx estate in the summer hols. Kite flying we would make our own kites and the best 2 would go against our arch enemies. They would win only because they had lots of line then I had the light bulb moment .... borrow dads boat reel a multiplayer with 450 yds of line. You should have seen there faces when we turned up over the park with the kite 6ft rod and reel. We won easily. Happy days.
  14. They did come up nice.
  15. And i thought my rods were dirty
  16. Highly just a thought have you got shares in Sonik 🤔
  17. An Ex girlfriend thought that my Bob Church 3 piece stickfloat rod with a lovely splice tip would be useful to unblock the downstairs loo... In her defence it did unblock it and she was most helpful by finding the tape
  18. The Beauty of my system is some goody-goody takes pity on the dog and untangle and disposes of the line... Everyone is happy I got rid of the line the goody goody is happy they’ve done a a good turn and the dog has had a run
  19. I tie a leader on 1st got to protect the old thing had to do it he’s down to his last 2 legs
  20. I tie the line to the dogs collar then throw a stick
  21. WOW !! Look at the size of that tail on the mirror second pic down 😳 Please don’t post anymore pics it’s like being tortured 😞
  22. I saw somewhere that they sold little plugs to fit in the Neville alarms speakers to tone them down
  23. Eric Morecambe on Fishing.....he was a flyfisherman I read the book in the 80s found it in a bookshop read 30 Pages then went onto the next 2 bookshops reading it then finished it in the library on the same day so so funny.
  24. Iv got no issues with colours just got to be stiff enough so it don’t tangle but not to stiff tho lol ......but who’s to say you won’t catch on a fluorescent hook length 🤔
  25. My old builders barrow back in the day I painted it camo...The only fishy gear I got in camo
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